Puzzlement Quotes

I have doubts! I have such doubts!

You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.

The question that haunted every investigation was 'why'.

I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times, Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind

Until I discover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. "My dear uncle-" I began. "Nor you either," he added.

Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.

I've never been jealous of anybody's success. I've been flummoxed by it because I don't understand it, but I'm not jealous of it.

I wonder why. I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder.

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

Nothing to show but this brand new tattoo. But it's a real beauty, a Mexican cutie, how it got here I haven't a clue.

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.

That's a question mark everyone's asking

I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think. You are not building the Pantheon, then why act like a graven image? You are drawing sketches in the sand which the sea will wash away.

Sometimes I have no idea whats going on

Skepticism is essential to the quest for knowledge, for it is in the seedbed of puzzlement that genuine inquiry takes root. Without skepticism, we may remain mired in unexamined belief systems that are accepted as sacrosanct yet have no factual basis in reality.

And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

What the deuce is to do now?

If you ever got me, you wouldn't have a clue what to do with me.

As much as I feel sad, I think that not knowing is what really bothers me.

We all stared at the scoreboard in stunned silence. Only Carter was able to get anything out. "That," he told Robert exuberantly, "is how a bird in the hand gets up before the early worm." "That doesn't make any sense," said Roger. Carter pointed at the scoreboard. "Neither does that, but there you have it.

I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.

It's my object to be stared at like a dog that's just been shown a card trick.

Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.

I want it clearly understood that I'm totally confused.